The day before Chuseok I went out to Yeonan Pier. The main goals were to try the abalone ramyeon and to buy some seafood. Ever since I started university in Seoul, I haven’t really gone around Incheon be…
Incheon is my home turf, but honestly there aren’t many places here you could call great restaurants. I met up with my high school friends for the first time in a while, and while we were trying to figur…
Wine is really cheap in Japan. I bought a few bottles to share with friends, and while I was looking for a place to drink them, I heard there was a spot near Gangnam Station with free corkage, so I dropped by….
Over the last Chuseok holiday I came to Korea for a visit, for the first time in almost seven months. Someone I’m on friendly terms with seemed glad to see me back in Korea after so long and insisted on …
As you would expect from the largest karst plateau in Japan, Akiyoshidai has some big limestone caves. Three of them are well known and open to visitors, and I went to see the biggest one, Akiyoshido Cave. Nea…
Yamaguchi is home to Akiyoshidai, the largest karst plateau in all of Japan. It’s only about 30 minutes by car from Hagi, so we had a light breakfast and set off. As you’d guess from the name Yamag…
Iwakuni, right on the border between Yamaguchi and Hiroshima, has a bridge called Kintaikyo. It’s a wooden bridge built the traditional Japanese way, apparently made by joining timber to timber with hard…
I couldn’t find any restaurant in Hagi in the guidebooks that looked especially good (cheap and tasty), so I booked a ryokan that serves meals. Even where I live, the cheap, tasty places rarely make it i…
I used the weekend for a quick trip to Yamaguchi. I was worried about traffic, so I left at 5 a.m., and luckily got there in just four hours. Once I crossed the prefectural border into Yamaguchi there wasnR…
These are photos I took when I went to see the fireflies in early summer. Ironically, my battery died, so I couldn’t get any shots of the fireflies themselves. Not that they would have come out well anyw…
It’s a park themed around flowers and birds. I heard Matsue residents get 50% off, so I went to check it out. It was much nicer than I expected. There were quite a few owls that looked straight out of Ha…
Since it was food served on a boat, I didn’t expect much at first, but the dishes turned out to be pretty high-end. (Had I known it would be this good, I might have skipped the Kitakata ramen…) Sas…